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We build collaborative environments for design journeys that help us see the systemic and dynamic settings for societal challenges and understand the difficult decisions we face amongst competing factors and compelling priorities. We are concerned with the patterns of practices and behaviour that maintain and challenge system structures. Our task is learning how to recognise patterns and challenge them both in social and technical systems and our individual lives.We bring together a multidisciplinary community of academics, scholars, partners and members of the public to build the conditions where everyone can play a part in designing and committing to journeys towards a world of common wellbeing and equity. We connect institutional areas of expertise through an expandable series of studios for design-led projects; creating opportunities for students to experience vertically integrated multidisciplinary challenge-focused authentic learning. (publish)

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Community Innovation Practitioners. Back row, left to right Dr Sara Hassan, University of Birmingham; Ruth Flanagan, The University of Manchester; Shirish Kulkarni, Cardiff University; Dr Claire Tymon, University of Huddersfield. Front row, left to right Eilish Victoria, University of Dundee; Lisa Rea Currie, Queen’s University Belfast.
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The full group of attendees at the first S³PARK workshop, held in the CCE1 lecture theatre at Northumbria University's City Campus East.
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